The romance of aeronautics, an interesting account of the growth & achievements of all kinds of aerial craft (1912)
Turner, Charles Cyril, 1870- · London, Seeley, Service & co., limited · leaf 143
ions are a guarantee of security ... if one may be permitted to affirm anything in the present state of the project one advances nothing that is not perfectly logical and reasonable in saying that from to-day the problem of aerial navigation is solved, or else all the known physical laws are false… … Fig. 8. — Giffaed's Balloon, 1852. The first airship driven by an engine. falling into the water and having narrow escapes from death. These wettings seem to have damped his ardour, and the hatter returned to France and resumed his commercial career. F. A. Gower made experiments in France in 1883,…
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